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The Pact: Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream
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Plot Summary of The Pact: Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream
"The true story of three Newark, NJ youths as they bond to become, respectively, doctors and a dentist. Each must cope to escape the poverty, dysfunction, and crime that so pervade their community. As they strive for success in the medical profession, the young men must overcome the rigors of maintaining good grades, the high financial costs of college, the strain on social relationships, and, most of all, the pressure that each must carry in their ascension toward their goals. The book also serves as a guide for others in forming their own pact and should prove beneficial for all concerned in the spiritual, emotional, and intellectual process of turning young males into responsible adults.

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Reginald D. Garrard, Resident Scholar



Review Analysis of The Pact: Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream
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Plot
Kids growing up/acting up? Yes
Kids: - general coming of age story
Ethnic/Relig. of subject (inside) - Black
Job/profession/poverty story Yes
Kind of living: - general poverty story
Ethnic/regional/gender Yes
Big/small town? - Big city

Subject of Biography
Gender - Male
Profession/status: - doctor
Age: - 20's-30's
Ethnicity - Black
Nationality - American (!)
How sensitive is this person? - sensitive to others' feelings

Setting
Century: - 1980's-Present

Style
Person - mostly 3rd
Book makes you feel? - encouraged
Writer's slant towards subject: - very favorable
Autobiography? Yes
How much dialogue in bio? - little dialog
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